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" There's a difference between being a fundamentalist and being al-Qaeda and being Muslim. It's absurd to think otherwise. "

Tyler Winklevoss

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" I think it's always interesting when you see a company start moving so quickly - it's like wow, incredible. When a company like Uber starts breaking away, it's not a linear thing. It's exponential. All of a sudden, the guy you know who threw $25,000 at Uber very early on - all the sudden, that $25,000 is $25 million. "

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" On one of our very first days when we tried rowing, our coach, James Mangan, showed us a video of the Boat Race. That was part of the impetus for us to start rowing. "

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" Every investor around the world wants to invest in U.S. markets because they're regulated and they're licensed. They're trustworthy; they have confidence. If you take that away, the global economy will take a hit like nothing else. We want to create that for Bitcoin. "

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" Cash is going to be killed. It will be nostalgia. "

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" I'm not a man who likes to define his identity too narrowly. "

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" Bitcoins - it's freedom. It's very American. "

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" We are pretty firm believers in the fact that you make your own fate, with or without the Facebook ordeal. "

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" If Bitcoin is a better gold or seen as a type of gold-like asset, then it could be in the trillions on a market cap. "

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" Everybody has a good idea, but nothing goes as planned. "

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" We didn't grow up in a jock household. In fact, my dad is an entrepreneur. He was a computer programmer; he was a professor of actuarial science at Wharton for 13 years, then started his own company that was software-based. "

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" I remember when people called Facebook a fad. "

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" Often, people are afraid to be good at more than one thing. "

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" I remember there was one summer - I think I was 13 years old - that was literally defined by watching 'Beavis and Butt-head' with my friends. "

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" Auctions create greater price discovery and liquidity, resulting in a very meaningful final auction price. If you were building a securities exchange today, an auction would be a core feature. "

Tyler Winklevoss

" Bitcoins are like gold bars with wings. That is why I, and so many others, view bitcoin and its network as gold 2.0. "

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" We were there at the beginning of the web 2.0. "

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" Hate is a strong word. It's also very destructive, so no - I don't hate Mark Zuckerberg. "

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" Judging a child taking his first steps for not being able to run a marathon is shortsighted. "

Tyler Winklevoss

" Calling bitcoin volatile - it's a non-statement. Unregulated assets with unclear regulatory landscapes are always going to be volatile. That's what unregulated assets do. "

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" One of the things that has plagued bitcoin is not bitcoin itself but the companies built on top of it. "

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" The idea of money being something physical is almost entirely a fiction. Sure, you can go to your ATM and pull out cash. And you can feel cash in your back pocket and have some tangible comfort there - but in reality, the majority of your money is a number on a screen. "

Tyler Winklevoss

" I don't think it hurts to have rowing featured in a movie that's in the race for the best pictures. If it means someone might try the sport... then I'm really excited and happy about that. "

Tyler Winklevoss

" I think our path to the Olympics is a good metaphor for how you build a company. Our skill and commitment grew over time, day by day, stroke by stroke. So, sports are tied well with our entrepreneurial pursuits because you train for a few years, but there is no guarantee that you will succeed. "

Tyler Winklevoss

" Bitcoin and digital currency is just this thing that was always going to happen. "

Tyler Winklevoss

" I think fiat currencies will become digital. "

Tyler Winklevoss

" In our early experiences with bitcoin, we found how few people were building bitcoin exchanges the right way. They really weren't taking the regulation seriously; they were taking it too much like how you would approach something when you're 18, full of the excitement of youth and throwing caution to the wind. "

Tyler Winklevoss

" We have elected to put our money and faith in a mathematical framework that is free of politics and human error. "

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" We may have been born on third base, but we worked like we were starting from home plate. You know: batter up. "

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" Facebook is like the Internet: a large company and an application. Bitcoin is a protocol for decentralisation, so you could build a decentralised company on top of it, a stock market. It's an Internet of ownership, so it's not quite a direct comparison. "

Tyler Winklevoss

" Dad was a pure entrepreneur. The dinner conversations weren't like, 'Did the Yankees win today?' "

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